Nina LaCour is the bestselling and Michael L. Printz Award-winning author of five critically acclaimed young adult novels published by Dutton Books: We Are Okay, Watch Over Me, Hold Still, The Disenchantments, and Everything Leads to You. She is also the co-author of You Know Me Well, a novel written in collaboration with David Levithan and published by St. Martin’s Griffin, and a contributor to numerous anthologies, including Summer Days and Summer Nights, edited by Stephanie Perkins. Her first novel for adults, Yerba Buena, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books in February of 2021, and her first picture book, Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle, is also forthcoming in 2021 from Candlewick.
Born and raised in the East Bay, Nina crossed the bridge to receive her undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University, and then crossed back to Oakland to receive an MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Her graduate thesis became her first novel, Hold Still, which received a William C. Morris honor from the American Library Association.
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Hold Still
